A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Crazy demo by Julia Miocene, recreating a scene from the wonderful Monument Valley game. Not for Safari though. Apart from my head exploding, I also heard my CPU exploding 🤯 This behind the scenes video from the first Monument Valley is quite nice.
veewee/composer-run-parallel
Nice addition to Composer by Toon Verwerft which allows you to run your custom commands in parallel This composer plugin allows you to run the tasks inside your composer file in parallel. No more waiting on one specific task! Say you have these two custom commands: { "scripts": { "php1": "@php -r 'sleep(3); echo \"1\";'", …
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I needed to test whether mail relaying worked with Exim or not. To do so I used this command: exim -v [email protected] After this type in your mail contents as shown below and hit CTRL+D afterwards to send it: From:[email protected] Subject: Hello From the CLI This is a test from the CLI It’s also possible …
Handy website by Harry Roberts and Ryan Townsend to mimic slow loading CSS or JS files. Basic params to tweak are the type and delay ones. The resulting HTTP Status Code (status) and max-age can also be tweaked. Slowfil.es →
The results for The State of CSS 2020 are in! Forget everything you know about CSS. Or at least, be ready to reconsider a lot of it. If like me you’ve been writing CSS for over a decade, CSS in 2020 looks nothing like what you were used to. Instead of breakpoints, we can now …
Mohamed Said recently wrote the book “Laravel Queues in Action”. To create the book he wrote it Markdown and then used his self-created tool ibis to generated the PDF and ePub versions. Installation per Composer: composer global require themsaid/ibis After which you start a new project with ibis init Check out the preview of “Laravel …
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Printers nowadays — System32Comics (@System32Comics) September 10, 2019 Funny because it’s (sad but) true 😅
caret-color property
Thanks to this tweet by Álvaro Trigo I found out that you can change the color of the caret — that little blinking | in text inputs — using the caret-color CSS property: There are CSS properties I never heard of before! Hello `caret-color` 👋 pic.twitter.com/ndcDUjN13R — Álvaro Trigo 🐦🔥 (@IMAC2) November 24, 2020 Example: …
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If you’re dealing with images it’s quite common to show a small placeholder while the image is loading. You could go with grey placeholders, but a low-res blurred version of the original is preferred. That way you can, in the example use case of a website, use the Blur Up technique once the image is …
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Today we are painting a girl taking a selfie, with mathematics. I like how the author, a few minutes into the video, says … none of which is too complicated to be honest … while I’m hardly understanding any of the things that he’s explaining 🥵 You can play with the result over at Shadertoy.